Category: 30daychallenge

This 30-Day Challenge has been intellectually stimulating for me. Enoch Hale challenged us to ask “out-of-the-box” questions about teaching and learning…which is fun in some ways and very challenging in other ways. It has definitely not led (for me) to “the same old thinking.” Our hallway conversations have been just as fun…and have focused on… Read more 30-Day Challenge – Day 22 – Asking the Wrong Questions

Ilya Pozin, founder of Open Me and Ciplex, and a columnist for Inc, Forbes and LinkedIn, had an article in LinkedIn called “15 Crazy Best Practices That Really Work.” Ilya noted that for entrepreneurs, conventional wisdom does not always work, especially in the disruptive market today. He posted 15 “crazy ideas” from fellow entrepreneurs who… Read more 30-Day Challenge – Day 21 – Crazy Teaching Practices

This past weekend, I was in a blog dialogue with “DogBiscuit123” – a bright teaching coach in the midwest. We were discussing the changing nature of work and how it impacted education. In his post, he talked about the arc of change over the past decade, with one-to-one initiatives, BYOD and mobile programs, and an… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 20 – The New Nomads

Flipping the classroom has been the rage the past few years. As Sams and Bergmann noted, many instructors assume that this means making videos for students to watch at home…”as though that were the essential ingredient.” They go on to note: “Flipped learning is not about how to use videos in your lessons. It’s about… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 19 – Flipped Out

Last week, I stumbled upon an EdTechReview blog post out of India on “How Curriculum for 21st Century Must Look Like?“. One of the things I treasure about my PLN is the alternative viewpoints that come out of Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. Granted that while different, higher education is really not that different…we… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 18 – The Imagination Spiral

Yesterday, I talked about woodpeckers and swifts…today my inspiration is penguins. Actually, my inspiration was a blog post by Garr Reynolds last week – “There’s no shame in falling. The key is getting up!” As Garr noted: “…What inspires me most about this flightless bird is their resilience. They make the best of a… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 17 – Teaching Like Penguins

My wife and I love birds. We have several birdfeeders in the backyard and plant flowers and shrubs that are bird-friendly. Sometimes that means the local hawks thin the flock a bit…but that is part of nature as well. Three different species of woodpeckers frequent our suet and peanut feeders, while – because we also… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 16 – Woodpecker or Swift

Maryellen Weimer had an interesting post today in Faculty Focus – “What’s Your Learning Philosophy?” Interesting because in GRAD-602, we have had students working on their teaching philosophies. One facet of transitioning from expert student to novice faculty can be reflecting on what one’s philosophy is about teaching. We provide resources such as Gabriela Montell’s… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 15 – Learning and Teaching

Divergent thinking typically comes out of annual SXSW conference. Earlier this month, the conference featured Bruce Sterling, a noted science fiction author, as a keynoter. Bruce used a phrase from his and Jon Lewbowsky’s State of the World 2012 post that he had previously used…and which got a bit of buzz: “The Future Is About… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 14 – Competing Fantasies

My 30-Day Challenge question for today was sparked by a post this weekend from Paolo Narcisco – “Knowledge Management As We Know It May Not Exist in 2020 (and here’s why)“. Paolo wrote: “…Consider this scenario. In 2020, over 60% of the workforce will be made up of Millennials. While I come from the Connected… Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 13 – Yik Yak Accountability

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I am Britt Watwood, an online teacher recently retired from Northeastern's Center For Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research. My passions are networked learning and using web technology for learning. I currently teach graduate courses at Northeastern University and Creighton University.
DISCLAIMER: I am a product of my personal learning network and my thoughts are impacted by the many people locally and virtually with whom I have contact. However, the views expressed here in this blog are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of the institutions for whom I teach.

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